Fortune and Longevity

Jingdezhen, 1820-1880
Height (including original stopper in situ): 6.78 cm
Mouth/lip: 1.13/1.62 cm
Stopper: colourless glaze on cobalt on porcelain, painted with a formalized shou character.

Provenance:
Jana Volf
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd, 2008
Ruth and Carl Barron, no. 4830
Christie’s, New York, 15 March 2017, lot 408

 

Pale beige, and dark blue glaze, and colourless glaze on cobalt, on white porcelain; with a convex lip, flat foot and convex footrim; in the form of a wine-jar, with mask and ring handles in relief, the lower body and shoulders in monochrome, the central band with a series of fu and shou characters in underglaze blue, the mask handles in oxidized cobalt, the foot painted with a shou character in underglaze blue.

Alexander Whittaker